Spread of Soybean Culture Helps Denying Brazilian Indians Their Land

In the state of Mato Grosso, located in the west region of Brazil, there are at least five lands whose ownership belonging to indigenous peoples whose legalization processes are stalled.

These lands are the Batelão and Cururuzinho lands of the Kayabi people; the Manoki land of the Irantxe people; the Teresa Cristina land of the Bororo people; the Baí­a do Guató land of the Guató people; and the Portal do Encantado land of the Chiquitano people.

Other peoples have not managed to ensure the setting up of technical groups to identify their traditional lands or parts of them, which were excluded from previous demarcation procedures.

These include the Castanhal and Tucunzal lands of the Myky people; the Rio Preto land of the Enawenê Nawê people; the lands of the Chiquitano people and the Pontal land of the Apiaka people.

Lands such as the Jarudori land of the Bororo people and the Urubu Branco land of the Tapirapé people have been invaded. The Marãiwatsede land of the Xavante people has been occupied by invaders and the indigenous people have been confined to a small space and prevented from circulating inside their own territory, although it has been demarcated, confirmed and registered.

Despite recent police operations to control deforestation in the state of Mato Grosso, problems caused by the illegal extraction of timber and pollution continue and have become more serious as a result of the expansion of soybean monoculture schemes, which pollute waters and affect entire rivers.

Indigenous people who live in isolation in the Rio Pardo indigenous land continue to face the threat of genocide, which will only be eliminated after all invaders of their lands are removed from them and they are demarcated and protected.

The evaluation of the situation of indigenous lands in the state of Mato Grosso was made by bishops, religious people and lay persons who are members of the Indianist Missionary Council during the Assembly of the Regional Office of the organization in Mato Grosso, which was held on July 17-21 in São Félix do Araguaia.

In a manifesto, they stated that the above-mentioned situations should be immediately addressed by the Brazilian State, or else they will contribute to the ethnocide and genocide of these peoples.

In their evaluation, they say that "the moratorium on the demarcation of indigenous lands imposed by the government of the state of Mato Grosso, the use of these lands as political currency and the inaction of the federal administration are the causes of this dramatic situation."

Cimi – Indianist Missionary Council – www.cimi.org.br

Tags:

You May Also Like

All Congress Leaders in Brazil Knew About Ruling PT’s Bribe Money

Brazilian ruling PT’s (Workers Party) former secretary general Silvio Pereira confessed that all top ...

Argentina Is Brazil’s Second Best Buyer and Seller

Brazil’s Secretary of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Development, Industry, and Foreign Trade, ...

Police Tap on Brazil’s Senate Chief Gives Hope Scandal Won’t “End Up in Pizza”

When the British magazine The Economist published the article entitled “House of Horrors”, about ...

Getting the Star Treatment in Brazil

As a red-blooded American male, I had never had a peeling, but as they ...

Weak Dollar Worries Brazil’s Agriculture Officials

Brazil’s Minister of Agriculture, Roberto Rodrigues, says that the country’s present exchange rate, characterized ...

Brazil Sweet Home

First things first. And the first thing to have when you want to get ...

Global Crisis Prompts Brazil to Inject Another US$ 10 Billion in Economy

In order to  provide banks with more liquidity for loans to their clients Brazil's ...

Brazil Hoping to Sign a Mercosur-EU Agreement by 2006

Given the discouraging prospects of the coming trade liberalization negotiations in the framework of ...

No One Buys More Chicken from Brazil than the Middle East

Brazilian chicken meat exports to the Arab countries should go on rising in 2005. ...

Brazil to Propose Preventive Agreements to IMF

Brazil’s Minister of Finance, Antônio Palocci, will participate in the annual meetings of the ...

WordPress database error: [Table './brazzil3_live/wp_wfHits' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed]
SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM `wp_wfHits`